University of Toronto University of Toronto - Physics Colloquium

The University of Toronto weekly physics colloquia will now be available online. You can download the PDF file only (if available), or view the voice-synchronized version of the talk. Just click on the PowerPoint file for the talk, and click open at the prompt. If you have difficulty opening the file in your browser, you can download both the PowerPoint file and the MP3 recording to your computer under the same directory.

Colloquium List 2007-2008

Date Speaker / Institution Host Title / Topic Download
September 13th, 2007 Len Sander
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rashmi Desai
Patterns and Growth of Highly Malignant Brain Tumors
PowerPoint File*
Recording not available
September 20th, 2007 Ian Shipsey
Purdue University
William Trischuk
Bring Hearing to the Deaf with Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
PowerPoint File*
MP3 Recording
September 27th, 2007 David Goodstein
Caltech
Young-June Kim
Out of Gas: The end of the age of oil
MP3 Recording
October 4th, 2007 Nergis Mavalvala
MIT
Neal Dalal
The search for the elusive gravitational wave
Recording not available
October 11th, 2007 Cecilia Bitz
University of Washington
Paul Kushner
Predicting Arctic Sea Ice Retreat
PowerPoint File*
October 18th, 2007 Erich Poppitz
University of Toronto
Paul Kushner
The wonders of supersymmetry: from quantum mechanics, topology, and noise, to (maybe) the LHC
MP3 Recording
October 25th, 2007 Krishna Rajagopal
MIT
Erich Poppitz
Probing the Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma
MP3 Recording
November 1st, 2007 Jun Zhang
NYU
Stephen Morris and Mary Pugh
The unidirectional flight of flapping wings
MP3 Recording
November 8th, 2007 David Snoke
University of Pittsburgh
Henry van Driel
Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in microcavities
PowerPoint File*
MP3 Recording
November 15th, 2007 Sabine Stanley
University of Toronto
Paul Kushner
Using dynamo generated magnetic fields to study a planet's deep interior
MP3 Recording
November 29th, 2007 Richard Van De Water
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Krieger
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Neutrinos
PDF File
December 6th, 2007 Anirvan Sengupta
Rutgers University
Arun Paramekanti
Phase Transitions in the Genome
MP3 Recording
January 10th, 2008 Saroja Polavarapu
Environment Canada
Ted Shepherd
Combining measurements and models in atmospheric physics
PowerPoint File*
MP3 Recording
January 17th, 2008 John Atherton
Toronto District School Board
David Bailey
Why do we bother to teach Physics at High School?
PowerPoint File*
Recording not available
January 24th, 2008 Dan Shim
MIT
Sabine Stanley
The Post-Perovskite Transition -Geophysical Implications for the Core-Mantle Boundary Region
MP3 Recording
January 31st, 2008 Daniel Goldman
Georgia Tech
Stephen Morris
Running on sand
Slides and recording not available
February 7th, 2008 Tommy Eriksson
CERN AB/OP/AD
Paul Kushner/Cody Storry
Particle accelerators at CERN - past, present and future
MP3 Recording
PowerPoint File* (zipped)
February 14th, 2008 Dan Stamper-Kurn
Berkeley
Joseph Thywissen
Quantum and thermal phases of a spin-1 Bose gas
MP3 Recording
February 29th, 2008 Daniel James
University of Toronto
Paul Kusner
Quantum Computing, Cryptography and Teleportation
Slides and recording not available
March 6th, 2008 Chang C. Tsuei
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
John Wei
Half Flux Quantization and High-Temperature Superconductivity: the road to d-wave and beyond
Slides and recording not available
March 13th, 2008 Howard Stone
Harvard
Stephen Morris
Manipulating thin-film flows: From patterned substrates to evaporating systems
MP3 Recording
March 27th, 2008 Margaret Kivelson
UCLA
Sabine Stanley
Electromagnetic periodicities at Saturn
MP3 Recording
PowerPoint File*
April 3rd, 2008 Greg Scholes
University of Toronto
Mary Pugh and Stephen Morris
Designing and controlling the optical properties of nanoscale systems
MP3 Recording
April 10th, 2008 Felice Frankel
Harvard University
Paul Kusner and Ingrid Silm
Envisioning Science, More than Pretty Pictures
Slides and recording not available
* - without voice synchronization
         

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